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    induce earthquakes on March 28, 2015 (MCGRATH). In addition, United States Environmental Protection Agency confirmed that the hydraulic fracturing relates to the water pollution (Banerjee). In Texas, if a city over 5000 populations can be became to a home rule city, which give the city government more freedom and flexibility(Collier). Since the hydraulic fracturing

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    's self " can clash under particular conditions such as the environment and yet experienced in various manners. I first started working for the City of Irvine right after I graduated College 2014. Having the opportunity to work for a city such as Irvine right after college, I felt so honored and over joyed. Excited to have a job, working for a beautiful city and enjoying every second of every day and the new challenges and experiences. This employment opportunity allowed me to be paid above the minimum

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    FOG COMPUTING IN SMART CITY Arti Agrahari Abstract: This paper represents a novel idea on how Fog computing can be used to manage the immense data generated in smart city. Fog computing can also be called as edge computing, is a distributed computing infrastructure in nature, for smart devices like mobile phones the application services should be maintained near the end user side but the services are handled at remote data server i.e. in cloud. Our aim is to reduce the amount of storage required

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    faster in many cities throughout America. Residents of poor urban areas face many sets of challenges that our community developers are not addressing that can alleviate issues within urban communities. If we can come together to fight against poverty, we can call for revitalization, we need many more new strategies to tackle problems that aren’t contained. Many authors address poverty within suburban communities as well; with discussions of suburbanization- that poverty is moving from cities to suburban

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    models to identify highly risk prone areas and help the city government to proactively resolve them. With the help of WindyGrid the city officials have been able to address a variety of issues such as : 1.  Preventative Rodent Baiting- The Chicago’s Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) in partnership with Event and Pattern Detection Laboratory (EPD Lab) at Carnegie Mellon University developed a forecasting model enabling the city officials to combat rodents outbreak in Chicago. This was

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    Introduction: I have chosen the City of Lancaster’s General Plan entitled, “Soaring into the Future”. Entitled so to pay homage to the City’s desire to grow and change, as well as a nod to its economic support from Edwards Air Force Base. The City of Lancaster is a city in the Northern Los Angeles County, in the western Mojave Desert. The City is separated from other communities because it is located in the valley between the Tehachapi Mountains to the North and the San Gabriel Mountains to the South

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    Abstract The purpose of this report is to choose a city from a southern California County and recognized possible types of business that could attract interest from the locals. The city of choice is Santa Ana because of its location, population density and business district. Santa Ana being the second largest city of the county offers many opportunity for the errand service business to grow and expand. Simply Complicated Errand Service City of Choice Santa Ana was chosen in

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    Humanity has always been dictated by its cities, these congregations of people seemingly organically creating the systems for how we live. However towards the end of the 19th century a new monolith started to plague skylines across the developed world, changing the shape of cities forever. Skyscrapers were indicative of a turning point in western civilisation, what was originally planned to be a great leveller of society, allowing for cheaper land prices in city areas, soon became a vestige of the rich

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    CHAPTER ONE 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background of the study Land-use and land-cover changes (LULCC) induced by human and natural processes a major role in global as well as regional scale patterns of the climate and biogeochemistry of the earth system (Ramachandra et al., 2012).Now a day’s Global warming is highly increasing as a result of massive land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes. The change in land-use land-cover leads to environmental change, rainy season fluctuation, increase sea surface temperature

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    The Future of Development in America Much has been said about the development patterns that are found throughout towns and cities in North America. In the New York Times, a post authored by Vishaan Chakrabarti discuses the trends facing American cities in the article “America’s Urban Future (Chakrabarti).” This article talks about the ways in which American cities are seeing resurgence in their urban areas, and new population segments are moving into once blighted areas. In order to convey the changes

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